As president-elect Joe Biden is about to be inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday, the COVID-19 pandemic remains on top of a pile of challenges facing the incoming administration. According to data tracked by the Johns Hop…
The growing threat from anti-government groups in the U.S. was highlighted by the shocking events at the Capitol on January 06 when the far-right Oath Keepers, Three Percenters, Boogaloo Bois and The Proud Boys were spotted among the crowds of Trump su…
With the second wave of the coronavirus underway in Europe, countries like Czechia and the UK as well as many more from the continent have moved up among the ranking of coronavirus cases per capita compiled with data by Johns Hopkins University. The co…
The Chinese economy continued its recovery in the fourth quarter of 2020, returning to a level of growth in line with pre-pandemic growth rates. According to the National Bureau of Statistics of China, the country’s GDP grew by 6.5 percent year-over-ye…
Aside from killing nearly 400,000 Americans to date and wreaking havoc on the country’s economy, the COVID-19 pandemic is also taking a heavy toll on mental health. That’s according to data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Center for…
TomTom has released its 2020 Traffic Index which highlights congestion levels in 416 cities in 57 countries. Continual increases in traffic congestion throughout the last decade were brought to an abrupt halt by the Covid-19 pandemic which has turned w…
The fear of blackouts is accompanying a major surge in wholesale electricity prices in Japan. Reuters reports that the benchmark price of power hit an all-time high today at 2.32 Yen/$2.24 per kWh. More data from the source Japan Electricity Power Exch…
Both Boeing and Airbus have released order and delivery figures for 2020 that reveal a sharp deterioration in the fortunes of both manufacturers as the pandemic continues to massively impede air travel across the globe. Boeing endured an even more nigh…
Thanks to hundreds of millions of people working, teaching or studying from home in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global PC industry just had its best year since 2015. According to new estimates from Gartner, global PC shipments grew 10.7 per…
After Samsung saw its profits dip in 2019, things are looking up since the latter half of 2020. On Friday, the South Korean electronics giant announced that it expects its Q4 profits to soar 25 percent to more than $8 billion when figures are released …
